Give up all your desires. Giving up desires means give up on all kinds of feelings. When you don't feel any thing, that means you don't want to do any thing and just concerntrate your mind towards emptyness which is towards god. Then how do we build our karma? If we are just going to sit there and not do any thing then what is the purpose of life? I thought you need to build your karma, and the only way you build that is by doing things every day and that means having desires and haveing feelings? Isn't that vicious circle? what is right thing do? Cann't human achieve that oneness with god without giving up desires?
2006-12-29 01:47:37 · 19 answers · asked by Mary L 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our desires come from God, even sex. If it is used inside the bond of marriage there is nothing wrong with it. Some people take a vow of poverty and celibacy so that there will be no distractions and attachments when they serve God.
Peter and other disciples of Jesus were married and they served God well and achieved that oneness with God. It's really a choice you have to make.
2006-12-29 02:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying you must stop doing what you're doing now, if you become a Christian? That means you know it is wrong. Let me ask you something. If you were to become a Christian, and God was to live in your heart, and you looked back upon your life, would you say to yourself now, "I did a lot of things I wish I hadn't done?" Probably so. The Bible speaks about just such a thing. In Rom. 6:21 it says, "What benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed, for the outcome of those things is death," (NASB). What you are saying is that God will require you to give up certain things that you like to do. Since God only wants what is good and right, and you say you don't want to give up what you are doing, then you are saying you want what is wrong.
Will you let your pleasures get in the way of salvation? Is your life of sin worth an eternity of pain? Jesus said, "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?" (Mark 8:36).
Then you haven't experienced it. No one who is a Christian will ever say that it is boring.
How do you know? Have you tried it? There are millions of Christians who have a lot of fun being Christian. We just do it with a lot less sin, and therefore, a lot less problems. Maybe it's only your problems that keep you from getting bored.
What do you think we do all day, sit around fireplaces and read Bibles? We ski, swim, play sports, read, have friends and problems like anybody else. Christianity is not boring. It is an adventure.
2006-12-29 01:54:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your question starts out pretty good, but then you threw in a couple of monkey wrenches.
You have a misconception on a couple of points. Just because you choose to give up on your own worldly ambitions does not mean that you are then free to sit and vegetate for the rest of your life.It means that you give up all of your bad habbits, and find a set of friends that will not drag you away from your religeous beliefs. It means that you will do what God has told you to do. The other misconception is about "Karma." It doesn't exist, but for those who do accept that idea, the karma has already been decided before you were borne, and your karma plays out each day.
It is a good thought to renounce our worldly pleasures and thoughts because these will lead us away from God.
2006-12-29 02:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by Marty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mixed and confused several systems/faiths.
Giving up desire only means giving up attachment - not feeling.
Building up karma is not what you want to do - bad karma are iron chains, good karma is gold chains. In the end you want to transcend karma.
You are still in the world and act - but no karma is accumulated. What is done in the world at that point is not really done out of personal desire - it is not something you need to do in order to get something or feel good.
"Can't human achieve that oneness with god without giving up desires?"
No. To be one with God means letting go of and transcending your ego. Desire strengthens the ego and keeps it in tact.
~ Eric Putkonen
2006-12-29 02:01:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if in what you said, you let your feelings drive your desires, wouldn't your desires be changing each and every day? That would sure be challenging - instead, becoming and following Christ is a change in mind first, think right, then do right, and you will feel right afterwards. Many of us try to feel right first, and adjust our thinking afterwards - we're all over the map then. As humans we seek what we desire, be it the largest or smallest of things. Christ says seek first his kingdom. What are your desires, we don't give up desires, we prioritize them.
2006-12-29 02:00:30 · answer #5 · answered by maguainc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be a shame to get to the point when you do not feel anything. To me this issue of giving up worldly pleasures and all desires is related more to our ability to control our desires, thoughts, and actions as opposed to letting them control us. There are sayings that come to us concerning this scenario like, Be the Captain of your own Ship, or Be the Master of Your Own Destiny.
If we are not in control of ourselves and our lives then we cannot reach that Oneness with God or the Divine that we desire to attain. Controlling ourselves does not mean we have to give up anything unless it is detrimental to our progress toward God. Our ability to be in control expresses the amount of desire we have within ourselves to regain our position in the light of God. Don't give up desires but direct them toward the goals you know are really important to your life and to gaining your Illumination with the Divine.
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2006-12-29 02:48:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You "build your karma" buy focusing on those things which ultimately have meaning. Truth and compassion are eternal whereas your material desires are transient so if you cling to desire you are pursuing an illusion whereas if you exhibit compassion you are following divine principles which is the means of attaining spiritual enlightenment.
2006-12-29 01:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you're pulling in a lot of Buddhist ideas (losing desire, emptiness) I'll give a Buddhist answer.
Lack of desire, when one truly achieves it, is not what it sounds like. It means you have taken *you*...not so much out of things, but everything comes into focus with the same sharpness and immediacy of you. It's not lack of desire for all things, but lack of desire for yourself, and when you reach that state of oneness (the Buddhist term is enlightenment), you can finally see that every single thing is as important as the next thing. The homeless man lying in the alley covered in his own vomit is as important as your own child, because your sense of proportion--the "what is important to me"--has fallen away, and instead you see things as God sees them. And through those eyes, any person's pain is as sharp as your own.
2006-12-29 01:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
desires are the fires that temper our soul like the fires that helps to make steel. it is human nature to want, to desire. dude you need to lighten up and don't beat yourself over this. God is loving that is why Jesus paid for our sins. God is forgiving, that is why in the new and old testament, he constantly forgave. King David made many mistakes, but God forgave him. Jesus paid for our sins so we do not have to pay for them. This does not give us a free pass to do anything, but tolerance and living a good life is just plain good!
2006-12-29 01:55:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anthony R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Desire I to gain wisdom, knowledge and power to create life from the light that gives life. Detached have I become, giving life to live as life sees the need. Habit create not, they are the bounds of the soul.
2006-12-29 02:02:30 · answer #10 · answered by guidedlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋